Tag Archives: John Graves

rollin’ on the river

“You watch them big rocks in Post Oak Bend.”

That was the advice given to John Graves as he launched his cano…

spraddle and sprawl

There is a pessimism about land which, after it has been with you a long time, becomes merely factual. Men increase; coun…

another book meme

Pam at Digging challenged me to this meme. Cowtown Patty published her choices recently too. Either of their lists is mo…

hard scrabble

I don’t know if John Graves is well-known outside Texas or not, but down here he has been kind of a minor deity of sor…